Rune Factory : Frontier - Review
Rune Factory : Frontier plays very similar to the Harvest Moon series, albeit with swords and a dose of extra activities to keep your attention as you build your virtual life. If you have had the pleasure of playing either series before, this will be a definite upgrade.
Rune Factory: Frontier combines the delightful notion of farming with the excitement and intensity of a fantasy action role-playing game. The variety of tasks, adventures, chores, and things to do is a god send as it keeps you involved in the slow game play of Rune Factory.
This slow pace may keep many gamers away. Many of the tasks will be boring to gamers used to more action and death in their gameplay. But if you like to build something and keep it going and becoming better you'll enjoy Rune Factory.
Rune Factory: Frontier has the same cute visual presentation that you will find in the Harvest Moon titles, and looks almost exactly the same in terms of the game screens, details, and textures. The new dungeons, monsters, weapons, and jobs all look suitably good, and adds a little more variety to the gameplay.
The character voices are still wonderfully entertaining, each voice is unique and helps to create personality in each character you interact with while playing.
In Rune Factory: Frontier you will tend your farm as you did in Harvest Moon, only with added elements of light RPG action that makes tending your farm and taking care of the chores a little more entertaining, this also adds energy to a game that's got a stigma of being a little slow paced.
You need to balance your social calendar as well while playing Rune Factory, charming your neighbors and the townsfolk you interact with is one of the most entertaining and interesting aspects of the game.
The variety of tasks has been increased and all have been well designed and balanced from the gameplay point of view, making Rune Factory even more fun, engaging, and satisfying to play.
However, despite all of its improvements and such, Rune Factory still becomes a bit of a grind after you've been playing it for a while, so you need to use your imagination to keep your interest and energy up to play the game.
The latest in the Rune Factory series Frontier allows you to choose how you want to live your in-game life and make all your own choices, which adds an element of control to the gameplay that you don't always have with other titles.
Even though Rune Factory can occasionally drag, there are so many things to do that if you use your imagination and creativity, you'll always have something to do.
7 / 10
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